Working together, it takes two computers 5 minutes to send out a company's email. If it takes the slower computer 15 minutes to do the job on it's own, how long will it take the faster computer to do the job on it's own?

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Koen Ross

Mathematics

2 May, 06:17

Working together, it takes two computers 5 minutes to send out a company's email. If it takes the slower computer 15 minutes to do the job on it's own, how long will it take the faster computer to do the job on it's own?

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Matias Hull · Answer 1

The answer is 6 minutes.

In principal to more is less in division and in multiplication more than 1 numbers are expected to increase.

As shown here;

15 mins = 15/2.5 = 6, 15 separately.

5 mins = 2 5 + 2.5 = 5 combined

If the other computer has a same rate of decrease then we can subtract 15-2.5 = 12.5 and find the average of 6.25.